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Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Coastal Cloud, a Florida-based Salesforce consulting partner, for $700M, in a bid to boost its AI and US customer business (Mark Haranas/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2025/tcs-bu

TCS Buys Salesforce Star Coastal Cloud For $700M To Create ‘Top Five Salesforce’ Firm
Tata Consultancy Services acquires Salesforce partner Coastal Cloud and ListEngage to boost AI revenue, American customers and Salesforce business.

Big Sur coastline, looking North from Ragged Point. Ragged Point, California, USA. October, 2025. Fujifilm X100VI. #bigsur #raggedpoint #coastline

A stretch of undeveloped California coastline on the border of Marin and Sonoma counties has officially opened to the public for the first time in a century.
Set on the coast just south of Bodega Bay and west of Valley Ford, the "Estero Americano Coast Preserve" is a 547-acre expanse at the mouth of the Estero Americano estuary.
The property is managed by the Wildlands Conservancy,
a nonprofit in the San Bernardino Mountains. The conservancy acquired the preserve …

Estero Americano Coast Preserve » The Wildlands Conservancy
The Wildlands Conservancy's Jenner Headlands is a spectacular 5,630-acre mosaic of redwood and Douglas-fir forests, oak woodland, chaparral and coastal prairie overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The Preserve adjoins Pacific Coast Highway for 2.5 miles adjacent to Sonoma Coast State Park. Jenner Headland

Providencia are doing some of the best cocktails in DC at the moment. Interesting ingredients, fantastic flavors.
Well deserved Michelin recommendation
https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/10/15/michelin-adds-8-new-restaurants-to-its-dc-guide/

From the department of weird coffee based drinks we present: the #Espresso Martini, the #Orangepresso and a bulletproof coffee #tasskaff

A matter of perspective. A Tom Gauld editorial cartoon from a while back.

The bar we wanted to go to last night was closed for a private event so we tried to see if barmini would take us without a reservation, and they had space. Excellent cocktails and service as you’d expect!

Project Eleven, which builds tools to prepare blockchains for post-quantum threats, raised a $20M Series A led by Castle Island at a $120M post-money valuation (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/385583/project-eleven-series-a-fun…

The HRRR, a NOAA real-time 3-km resolution, hourly updated, cloud-resolving, convection-allowing atmospheric model, initialized by 3km grids with 3km radar assimilation,
predicts a whole lotta water will fall on coastal Southern California in the early morning https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/11555228330

AI6YR Ben (@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)
Attached: 1 image HRRR says... 5am. TBD if the forecast pans out, but HRRR usually is good. #rain #CAwx

On Thursday, the California Coastal Commission voted to approve a permit allowing the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, perched above Avila Beach of San Luis Obispo County,
to continue operating through at least 2030.
The controversial decision was conditioned on Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), the plant’s operator, agreeing to permanently conserve 4,000 acres of surrounding land from commercial or residential development.
The decision carries powerful consequences for the…

Diablo Canyon Clears Hurdle to Stay Open Until at Least 2030
The California Coastal Commission approves permit allowing state’s last nuclear power plant to continue operating past its 2025 shutdown deadline.